Thursday, August 17, 2006

Our zucchini crop started off with a bang. I had plans for baking loaves of zucchini bread, leaving zukes on porches and taking zukes to my hairdresser... then all of a sudden, the vines rotted, dried up and died. I was shocked. Then I heard it wasn't just us. The heavy rains and scorching heat created vegetable "carnage" everywhere.

The eggplants however are doing splendidly, so I am realigning my focus on future eggplant parmesean and eggplant sandwiches.

Our zucchini also died. But thanks to a friend of mine who is a master gardener, we figured out it was something called a vine borer. Stupid moth lays it's eggs at the base of the vine and the larvae bore into vine and feed on the vine from the inside. Gross! Your eggplant look great!